Publications

Publication Library

Click through the tab headings below to view our library of items (available in both print and PDF formats) offered from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.

Publications include annual Hunting Rules & Info booklets, issues of New Mexico Wildlife (see also http://magazine.wildlife.state.nm.us),Annual Report Fiscal Year 2016, The Economic Contributions of Fishing, Hunting, & Trapping in New Mexico 2013, as well as coloring books and wildlife brochures.

2018-2019 Hunting & Fishing

Available online and in print, the 2018-2019 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information provides essential information about big-game and upland-game hunting in New Mexico. NEW for 2018: a tag is now required in conjunction with all big-game and turkey licenses. DO NOT HUNT WITHOUT YOUR LICENSE AND A VALID TAG! The rules booklet contains information about licenses and fees, carcass tagging procedures, descriptions of public and private-land uses, definition of criminal trespass, hunter education, the Mentored-Youth Hunter Program, off-highway vehicle use, Operation Game Thief and much more.

Click the document title below to download a PDF version on your computer. Printed versions of rules and information booklets are available soon at New Mexico license vendors.

Migratory Game Bird

Fishing

New Mexico Wildlife

New Mexico Wildlife is a quarterly magazine produced by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish with a focus on department activities, native wildlife and outdoor recreation, including hunting and fishing. The magazine is printed and distributed statewide as an insert in local newspapers. The magazine is also available by PDF or this newest NMDGF website: http://magazine.wildlife.state.nm.us.

Making Tracks: A Century of Wildlife Management

Now available online, A Century of Wildlife Management originally appeared between Winter 2002-03 through Summer 2005 in the pages of New Mexico Wildlife magazine. The 9-part series was created by John Crenshaw – writer, outdoorsman, and retired chief of the Department of Game and Fish Public Information and Outreach Division.

“New Mexico’s first territorial game warden was appointed in 1903. There was no school of wildlife management, no state fish hatchery system and few, if any, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep and elk.

The Department of Game and Fish has grown out of that first appointment […]. Their mission is to provide the people of New Mexico with a flexible system of fish and wildlife management that perpetuates the state’s vast wealth of wildlife species.

During the last century of challenge, the agency has restored elk […]; put Bighorn sheep back on the mountains; constructed and reconstructed six fish hatcheries […]. Along the trail the Department has assumed new responsibilities as the public’s desire to retain its wildlife heritage embraced species once believed less than desirable.

[With this 9-part series of New Mexico Wildlife, we look…] at the tracks this outfit made during its first century. Those tracks lead to the highest peak, and to the hottest desert, anywhere wildlife might need a helping hand.”

– John Crenshaw, Making tracks: a century of wildlife management, New Mexico Wildlife (Winter 2002-03, Vol 47 Num 4) .

Continue reading the full series A Century of Wildlife Management now mobile accessible on the new New Mexico Wildlifemagazine website. (New Mexico Wildlife is a quarterly magazine produced by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish with a focus on department activities, native wildlife and outdoor recreation, including hunting and fishing).

Education & Conservation

Wildlife Notes (click and scroll to see more) offer educational PDF’s on the wide variety of species that call New Mexico home. Select from the drop-down menus to download these printable pages to your local computer.

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Our Mission

To conserve, regulate, propagate and protect the wildlife and fish within the state of New Mexico using a flexible management system that ensures sustainable use for public food supply, recreation and safety; and to provide for off-highway motor vehicle recreation... (Read more...)